Jim Kavanagh

Jim Kavanagh edits The Polemicist. Follow him on Twitter @ThePolemicist_.

First and Foremost, Colonialism Must End

RFK, Jr.’s Chances

Debt Ceiling Nonsense

Zombie War: Plan B for Ukraine

Arresting Development: The ICC Arrest Warrant for Putin is a Weapon of War

Marching Into the New Year with World Wars III, IV, and V (Part 1)

Will There be a Nuclear War?

Let Roe Go: Winning Abortion Rights

The Wrinkle: Abortion Rights, Vaccine Passports, and Bodily Autonomy

Ukraine Negotiation Kabuki

The Battle of Ukraine and the War It’s Part Of

Reconcile This: Lessons From the Latest Legislative Debacle

Playing the Field

Apartheid Does Not Have the Right to Defend Itself, or to Exist

The American Farce Unravels: Shreds of January 6th

Why Payroll Taxes Are the Achilles Heel of Social Security

Over the Rainbow: Paths of Resistance After George Floyd

Joe or No?

Bloomberg’s Game

The Party’s Over: Bernie’s Last Dance With the Dems

Aftermath: The Iran War After the Soleimani Assassination

Impeachment: What Lies Beneath?

Defeat or Impeach? The (Il)Logic of Impeachment

Trump’s Syrian See-Saw: From Pullout to Pillage

The Empire Steps Back

Dead Man’s Hand: The Impeachment Gambit

Eve of Destruction: Iran Strikes Back

Swedish Sex Pistol Aimed at Assange

Avoiding Assange

Investigation Nation: Mueller, Russiagate, and Fake Politics

The Siege of Venezuela and the Travails of Empire

For What It’s Worth: The Yellow Vests and the Left

“Taxpayer Money” Threatens Medicare-for-All (And Every Other Social Program)

Be Careful What You Ask For: Wasting Time with Manafort, Cohen, and Russiagate

Fighting Fake Stories: The New Yorker, Israel and Obama

Sacrificing Gaza: The Great March of Zionist Hypocrisy

The Warm War: Russiamania at the Boiling Point

What to Expect From a Trump / Kim Summit

Honoring Robert Parry

Behind the Money Curtain: A Left Take on Taxes, Spending and Modern Monetary Theory

Zionism in the Light of Jerusalem

Sticks and Stones: Free Speech and Punching Politics

The Rifle on the Wall: a Left Argument for Gun Rights

Fool Me Twice: Trojan Horse Democrats Pile into the House of Single-Payer

Donald the Destroyer: Assessing the Trump Effect

California Scheming: Democrats Betray Single-Payer Again

Resist This: the United States is at War With Syria

No Laughing Matter: The Manchester Bomber is the Spawn of Hillary and Barack’s Excellent Libyan Adventure

Fast and Furious: Now They’re Really Gunning for Trump

Game Change: Syria, Interrupted